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I am so sad that I have to wear glasses. You would think after 20 years that I would be used to the trifocals that I've been "lucky" enough to be "blessed" with from the beginning of the siege on my eyesight. After 20 years of visiting an optomitrist, I've now decided it's time to see an actually eye doctor. I wonder what he will say.

Good luck with your upcoming visit. Indeed, if you are blinking and complaining, it is definitely time.

I know this problem...when I have new glasses no matter if for reading or distances, I am sure, that the day I pick them up from the shop my eyes have changed a bit.....Eyes are so different from one day to the other, it depends wether you are tired or not or your common condition is good or not....there are so many reasons....It is very difficult to find the right day to test them.I never go to an eye doc because you have to wait ages.....first for an appointment and when you are there, you have to wait hours again...terrible!!I let all tests do at an specialised optical store. They normally have got a very good equipment to check my eyes.

Great frames! I've worn glasses since I was a kid. I did contacts for many years but when I needed bifocals I went back to glasses. I seem to have the opposite problem as you....I take my glasses off to see anything up close but can't see a thing if it's very far away.

Be patient....they'll get it right. It usually takes a couple of adjustments.

I have been wearing glasses for about 50 years and I dearly love them. My most common problem is when I try to view the world through dirty glasses; it always amazes me how much better things look after I clean my glasses.

You look lovely in your glasses! I think they make you look younger, not that you needed to anyway. I am very nearsighted and then recently farsighted, too, so mine are transition lenses. I still catch myself looking over the top of them to see things clearly that are small and closeup. For reading or such, they do help. I do think I have lost a little of the sharpness of vision that I had with previous regular glasses for far off things.

Love the glasses! Glad you're headed back to get them right. I still can't get the hang of it when I'm there with the "does this look better than this?" flip. "Ok, now does this look better than this?" Honestly, on any given day, my answers could be different. I need to go in to get mine checked as well. Ah, but every time I put them on, I say, "really? this is how we're supposed to be able to see? Awesome!"

Your eyes sparkle regardless, Jeanie! Can you imagine, back in the day before glasses?! Must have been awful to be blurry all the time. I get such a headache when I go to work and my "readers" are sitting on the kitchen counter.

Well happy spring,anyway. It is spring in Michigan, now, isn't it? My white muscari are blooming along with a couple different daffs. Lovely with the chirping robins and cardinals in the background. Ahhhhhh.... at last.

About Gypsy!

The Marmelade Gypsy was a big orange cat who happened into my life when he was abandoned long ago and took up residence in the window well. Within a few months, he had moved inside the house and took up residence inside my heart (and on the couch, in the window, on the bed...) He was one sweet boy, the ultimate cat who served as pet therapist, executive assistant and secret keeper. He will always hold a huge spot in my heart. Goodbye, Mr. Gyps.

Lizzie Cosette

Lizzie Cosette may be neither marmelade nor a gypsy, but she is indeed a "Marmee," as the March sisters in "Little Women" referred to their mother. Found in an abandoned garage with three kittens, she was fostered until she found a new home and human to love her.

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